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Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse Eilanden van America, behelzende de natuurlyke historie van de landen ... alsook die der zwarte slaaven: beneffens de oorlogen en voornaamste gevallen.. als ook een naauwkeurige verhandeling van het maken der suiker, indigo, c

Amsterdam
Balthasar Lakeman
1725

4 parts in 2 vol. in-4to, 2 front., 350 pp, 404 pp, 254 pp, 167, [32] pp, 13 maps and plans, 83 plates. The text on the plates in French. Description of mainly Martinique and Guadeloupe, but also some islands that father Labat visited as a missionary. Translated from French into Dutch by Wilhelmus C. Dycks. Some hardly visible marginal damp staining on some pages. Contemporary uniform vellum bindings, titles in ink on spines

Ref. Sabin 38415 ; Cat. NHSM I, p.268 ; Howgego L43 ; Tiele 623 ; Mueller, Kakao p.29. ""Labat went to the West Indies as a Dominican Missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe. He speaks also of many of the smaller islands; of some of them this is the only early information we possess. He gives accounts of the cultivation of tobacco, sugar, indigo, etc., and many anecdotes of the inhabitants."" (Cox II, p.235). Also on slavery, flora and fauna. The first Dutch edition with the same plates as the first French 8vo ed., published Paris 1722

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LABAT, Jean Baptiste (1663-1738)